Tag: PCDMV

With the National Assembly (NA) and National Council of Provinces (NCOP) starting work this week in earnest the Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military...

If proposals set by Parliament’s Joint Rules Committee (JRC) are accepted, the Joint Standing Committee on Defence (JSCD) will see the African National Congress...

One of the three parliamentary defence oversight committees is up and running, a chair has been named for another and the third awaits direction...

Battle lines are seemingly drawn ahead of the 2024 fight for defence funding, with National Treasury (NT) on one hand warning the powers that...

Parliamentary oversight is an important practice in democracies as it prevents dominance by the executive branch of government and ensures accountability. Oversight of the...

Two weeks after her Department of Defence (DoD) was hauled over the coals by its internal audit committee, Minister Thandi Modise’s portfolio was given...

The Department of Defence (DoD) received stark warnings from its audit committee chair during a presentation to the Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military...

Nine years since the most recent SA Defence Review saw the light of day, Defence and Military Veterans Minister Thandi Modise wants, as “a...

In the light of continued decreasing defence spending by President Cyril Ramaphosa’s government, Armscor will intensify its commercialisation strategy by building on a top...

Slow progress is being recorded with the long-delayed A-Darter air-to-air missile being manufactured by Denel Dynamics for the SA Air Force (SAAF), with delivery...

Two areas where austerity measures brought on by a reduced defence budget show in the performance of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) are...

South Africa’s commitment to the Southern African Development Community (SADC) peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) did not have an auspicious...

Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Defence (JSCD) and Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans (PCDMV) recently conducted a study tour to Germany, and...

The budgetary review and recommendations report (BRRR) of the Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans (PCDMV) has nine recommendations for improving the well-being...

Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans (PCDMV) raised the possibility of a legal claim against the owners of the land where the...

A last minute rush saw a Government Gazette published yesterday (Friday 6 October) with details of revised pension regulations for military veterans. The Department of...

Military veterans now have to wait for ministerial approval before the “payment process” for pensions can be started, Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Defence and...

Providing an update on the yet to be finally resolved Umzimvubu Regiment July 2021 call-up, SA Army Chief, Lieutenant General Lawrence Mbatha, told parliamentarians...

As with much else in the overall SA National Defence Force (SANDF), its largest combat component suffers a funding shortage and this is affecting...

Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans (PCDMV) believes investigations into financial malfeasance to the tune of R170 million in the Department of...

“Challenges” along with “low performance” and “major misalignment” made regular appearances in a Parliamentary Communication Services statement regarding a Department of Military Veterans (DMV)...

Making the South African military comply with Cabinet authorised budget and spending cuts is not in the best interests of the country’s defence capabilities,...

That South Africa needs a defence force is not in question. However, what is worrying to Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Defence (JSCD) is...

The chaos of a mid-2021 Reserve Force regiment Operation Prosper call-up, including a second board of inquiry (BOI), resulted in 13 recommendations, including “corrective...

The Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans (PCDMV) – one of two Parliamentary defence oversight committees has set itself tough targets for the...

This week’s oversight visit to military bases and facilities in an around Bloemfontein brought to the forefront the commitment of young men and women...

Air Force Base (AFB) Bloemspruit could well be a microcosm of the SA Air Force (SAAF) based on what Parliamentarians saw and were told...

The Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans (PCDMV) is in Free State on what can only be its final oversight visit of the...

One of Parliament’s two committees charged with oversight of defence and military veterans is “extremely concerned” by “slow progress” in updating the national military...

Probably the most poignant comments to date on what is increasingly looking like a dead duck – Project Hoefyster – include “a sad sight”,...

Given the miserliness with which the national defence force is treated by the Ministry of Finance’s National Treasury (NT) it’s not surprising the latest...

“Under-performance” and “serious concern” are among words used by Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans (PCDMV) in the wake of an annual...

Pretoria-based James Kerr heads up Orion Consulting and provides, among others, management, marketing, pricing and strategic planning services to industry sectors including the South...

Part of its efforts to raise much-needed capital sees Armscor planning to become a prime contractor and facilitator for the South African defence industry...

As Denel readies itself to become a properly functioning entity, the State-owned defence and technology conglomerate appears to have an ally in the form...

Ailing State-owned defence and technology conglomerate Denel was told “there’s no need to sugar coat or hide anything” by the acting chair of a...

A training facility north of Pretoria where pre-selection, selection and ongoing training for and of South Africa’s elite Special Forces operators takes place is...

Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans (PCDMV) heard a litany of woes – all pertaining to the parsimonious manner the Department of...

Now in its 10th year, the bilateral agreement on defence co-operation between Cuba and South Africa has increasingly come under the spotlight following the...

Ample proof the South African military is not exempt from the fraud and corruption permeating many government departments and entities comes from SA National...

In what could only be a reference to the first permanent director-general at the Department of Military Veterans (DMV) following a pair of “actings”,...

There are currently contract cancellation lawsuits totalling R189 159 000 against the Department of Military Veterans (DMV). This is according to a presentation by DMV...

In pursuit of solutions to the multiple problems facing the national defence force and the sorry state of much of its prime mission equipment...

The perennially under-performing Department of Military Veterans (DMV) was lambasted by Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans (PCDMV) for spending less than...

The saga around the importation and use of a Cuban immune booster/modulator to protect soldiers and other military personnel, mainly medical, from the “viral...

Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans (PCDMV) heard two of six irregular expenditure cases at the Department of Defence (DoD) involve over...

That the Department of Military Veterans (DMV) doesn’t enjoy a high success ranking is evidenced by the appointment of a Presidential task team (PTT)...

State-owned defence and security acquisition agency Armscor faces a dwindling income stream due to decreasing defence funding and has identified 15 potential new clients...

The Department of Defence (DoD) is investigating seven cases of unauthorised, fruitless, wasteful and irregular expenditure amounting to around R1.5 billion, Parliament’s Portfolio Committee...

The increasing level of attention given to military veterans and, in many instances, their plight, is evident in actions of both The Presidency and...